http://independenttrader.org/will-fed-initiate-a-mini-crisis.html
On paper, central banks are responsible for two things. They decide
about the supply of currency and set interest rates. If the economy is
healthy the velocity of money circulation grows higher creating
inflation. Raising interest rates help to cool off the overheating
economy. On the other hand, if the economy is heading for a recession
central banks lower interest rates to make available to society credit
cheaper and stimulate spending. This helps the economy get up from its
knees. This is the theory.
Historically we see that central banks
kept interest rates very low not to prevent economies from apathy but to
create speculative bubbles and crashes that follow them. The control
over economic cycles exercised with money supply and interest rates made
it possible to transfer wealth out of the middle class to the financial
sector.
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